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SOAS Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 17 (2015)
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Youngberg, C., Garrett, E., Hill, N. W., Belkadi, A., Lucas, C., Nolan, J., Croome, S., & Sutherland, P. (2015). SOAS Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 17. London

Tibetan part-of-speech conundrums: maṅ and yun riṅ (2015)
Journal Article
Hill, N. W. (2015). Tibetan part-of-speech conundrums: maṅ and yun riṅ. Rocznik Orientalistyczny, 68(2), 65-72

This paper discusses two Tibetan expressions, maṅ and yun riṅ, which give rise to vexing problems of part of speech analysis.

The sku-bla rite in imperial Tibetan religion (2015)
Journal Article
Hill, N. W. (2015). The sku-bla rite in imperial Tibetan religion. Cahiers d'Extrême-Asie, 24, 49-58. https://doi.org/10.3406/asie.2015.1313

Rolf Stein, Ariane Macdonald and other scholars regard the sku-bla as a mountain deity; however, whereas Stein sees this cult as a foreign import Macdonald regards it as central to Imperial Tibetan religion. After a re-examination of the relevant pas... Read More about The sku-bla rite in imperial Tibetan religion.

Proposal for a transcription of Chinese characters in the study of early Chinese language and literature = 早期漢語言文學研究中的漢字釋讀方法新探 (2015)
Journal Article
Hill, N. W. (2015). Proposal for a transcription of Chinese characters in the study of early Chinese language and literature = 早期漢語言文學研究中的漢字釋讀方法新探. Bulletin of Chinese linguistics, 8, 48-60. https://doi.org/10.1163/2405478X-00801003

This paper outlines the pitfalls of the current anachronistic practice of transcribing early Chinese documents by identifying each character with a kǎishū 楷書 equivalent. In its place, I suggest a way of transliterating characters directly, by rende... Read More about Proposal for a transcription of Chinese characters in the study of early Chinese language and literature = 早期漢語言文學研究中的漢字釋讀方法新探.

Languages: Tibetan (2015)
Book Chapter
Hill, N. W. (2015). Languages: Tibetan. In J. A. Silk (Ed.), Brill's Encyclopedia of Buddhism. Volume One (917-924). Brill

Constituent order in the Tibetan noun phrase (2015)
Journal Article
Garrett, E., & Hill, N. W. (2015). Constituent order in the Tibetan noun phrase. SOAS working papers in linguistics, 17, 35-48

This paper gives a schematic presentation of the order of constituents in the Tibetan noun phrase as revealed by an investigation of a corpus of Classical Tibetan texts.

A Constraint Grammar POS-Tagger for Tibetan (2015)
Book Chapter
Garrett, E., & Hill, N. W. (2015). A Constraint Grammar POS-Tagger for Tibetan. In E. Bick, & K. Hagen (Eds.), Proceedings of the Workshop on “Constraint Grammar - methods, tools and applications” at NODALIDA 2015, May 11-13, 2015 (19-22). Institute of the Lithuanian Language

This paper describes a rule-based part-of speech tagger for Tibetan, implemented in Constraint Grammar and with rules operating over sequences of syllables rather than words.

Hare lõ: the touchstone of mirativity (2015)
Journal Article
Hill, N. W. (2015). Hare lõ: the touchstone of mirativity. SKASE Journal of theoretical linguistics, 12(2), 24-31

DeLancey (2012: 539) draws attention to the morpheme lõ in Hare as the touchstone of a putative 'mirative' grammatical category. An examination of his examples of lõ reveals very weak evidence for establishing 'mirative' as a category in this languag... Read More about Hare lõ: the touchstone of mirativity.

The Contribution of Tangut to Trans-Himalayan Comparative Linguistics (2015)
Journal Article
Hill, N. W. (2015). The Contribution of Tangut to Trans-Himalayan Comparative Linguistics. Archiv orientální, 83(1), 187-200

Tangut is among a handful of Trans-Himalayan1 languages with an early date of attestation and a vast literature. First recorded from 1042 C.E., Tangut is younger than Chinese (c. 1200 B.C.E) and Tibetan (650 C.E.), but older than Burmese (1113 C.E.).... Read More about The Contribution of Tangut to Trans-Himalayan Comparative Linguistics.

Tibetan (2015)
Book Chapter
Simon, C., & Hill, N. W. (2015). Tibetan. In N. Grandi, & L. Körtvélyessy (Eds.), Edinburgh Handbook of Evaluative Morphology (381-388). Edinburgh University Press

The contribution of corpus linguistics to lexicography and the future of Tibetan dictionaries (2015)
Journal Article
Garrett, E., Hill, N. W., Kilgarriff, A., Vadlapudi, R., & Zadoks, A. (2015). The contribution of corpus linguistics to lexicography and the future of Tibetan dictionaries. Revue d'études tibétaines, 32, 51-86

The first alphabetized dictionary of Tibetan appeared in 1829 (cf. Bray 2008) and the intervening 184 years have witnessed the publication of scores of other Tibetan dictionaries (cf. Simon 1964). Hundreds of Tibetan dictionaries are now available; t... Read More about The contribution of corpus linguistics to lexicography and the future of Tibetan dictionaries.

Tibetan √lan ‘reply’ (2015)
Journal Article
Hill, N. W., & Zadoks, A. (2015). Tibetan √lan ‘reply’. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 25(1), 117-121. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1356186314000455

Recognizing the parallelism between the conjugation of a verb such as √lug 'pour' (pres. ldug, past blugs, fut. blug, imp. lhugs 'pour' and a verb such as √kru 'wash' (ḥkhrud, bkrus, bkru, khrus), Li Fang-Kuei suggests deriving the present stem ldug... Read More about Tibetan √lan ‘reply’.

Grammatically conditioned sound change (2014)
Journal Article
Hill, N. W. (2014). Grammatically conditioned sound change. Language and Linguistics Compass, 8(6), 211-229. https://doi.org/10.1111/lnc3.12073

In the first half of the 20th century following the Neogrammarian tradition, most researchers believed that sound change was always conditioned by phonetic phenomena and never by grammar. Beginning in the 1960s, proponents of the generative school pu... Read More about Grammatically conditioned sound change.